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3 43 -> marriage

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Looking back the casts I have received...

My question was: Will I get married?
hexagram 3 changing lines 2,3,4 to hexagram 43

I couple of days ago I asked: Do you see me married in the future?
Hexagram 31 uc
It looks so auspicious.. Isn't it?

Could anyone help me to interpret the first reading?
I am sure that line 2 is referred to me 'waiting for a long time for the one'..
I can't interpret line 3, I don't understand it at all. should I desist and not asking this kind of questions..? Don't be so forceful.. just waiting for the right time...?
Line 4 shows a union...
and the resulting hexagram 43 breakthrough: decision for marriage? "One must resolutely make the matter known at the court of the king. It must be announced truthfully." Does it seem like a wedding ceremony? When the groom and the bride say "I do" ? ( the court of the king= a church?)

Please be patient with me.... :)

44 in Love

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I keep leaving boyfriend with whom I live hope that my new love and I aren't serious, when actually I love this new guy. I have asked the Oracle what I loose or gain by loosing my ex. Hexagram 44 came as an answer:

Sequence

Coupling follows from Hexagram 43, Deciding:
'Breaking through must mean meeting, and so Coupling follows: Coupling means meeting.'



Can someone, please 😁 help me with interpretation?

Hairless mole-rat

Why isn't my business building?

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I've been trying to get a business going for over a year. I have regular clients, but not enough of them to make a good living. I'm finding new clients don't seem to keep coming back - they have a session or 2, get back on their feet and then go happily on their way. I really want this to work, but feel like I'm struggling financially, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong and maybe I need to do something else.
The answer through the site was
54.1.2 -> 16

I asked this morning by my own cast and the answer was
40.3.5 -> 28

would really appreciate any input to understanding these readings.

Financial success

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I am starting a new company and my question is what is the outcome of financial success?

There are legal disputes from my previous organization that are trying to stop me from proceeding forward, so it is a bit difficult right now.

I would appreciate if someone could comment on my reading.
Thanks

What is the difference between Hex 3 and Hex 9?

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Which would be the difference between them? I cannot tell the difference. Thanks!

Hex 4 UC - (maybe) unrequited love, and a poem by e e cummings

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Hello friends,

my intention is not precisely to ask for advice re. this reading (though you are welcome to share your thoughts), but instead to share a poem that's been on my mind for a couple of days and fits very much with the hexagram, the reading, and the situation, so it may be of help to someone in the future.

My situation, in broad strokes: Recently, my past flame and I have been reconnecting in a space we both share. It was a very complicated relationship, and it was really hard to attempt to move on after it was over... and well, it seems that, if I moved on before, right now all the feelings are being re-kindled... perhaps not reciprocally (I don't know, and am afraid to even ask; and it might be difficult even doing it because of a set of circumstances I won't go into).

My first question was: "I love him, and I don't know how to deal with it. I love him a lot. The asymmetry hurts. What can you say about that?" The Yi answered: 4.6 -> 7. I understood: correct the folly, but not harshly, just enough to be disciplined. I have some idea of what "the folly" might mean for me, but I asked "what is the folly?"anyways, and the Yi answered 4 UC.

The folly is, imo, trying to not accept my feelings, through divination, through rationalization, through action. It hurts, but it hurts more to try constantly to get out of it, to move and fidget.

Now, the poem. Number 45 in "100 Selected Poems" by e e cummings, I think it applies: what if it's ok not to know? How can you make peace with not knowing, at least not for the time being? What is the relationship between "love" and "uncertainty" or the unkown?

Here it is:

"love's function is to fabricate unknownness

(known being wishless;but love,all of wishing)
though life's lived wrongsideout,sameness chokes oneness
truth is confused with fact,fish boast of fishing

and men are caught by worms(love may not care
if time totters,light droops,all measures bend
not marvel if a thought should weigh a star
--dreads dying least;and less,that death should end)

how lucky lovers are(whose selves abide
under whatever shall discovered be)
whose ignorant each breathing dares to hide
more than most fabulous wisdom fears to see

(who laugh and cry)who dream,create and kill
while the whole moves;and every part stands still:"

:bows: :bows: :bows:

edit: fixing some spelling mistakes in the poem

Asking about the immediate future of humanity Hexagram 13.2 to 1 !!

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Hello,

I am a newbie in IChing, deeply inspired and amazed of it and willing to be a dedicated student and a noble medium of its wisdom.

Its my first post in this really eye-opening, interesting and friendly forum. I decided to ask for your opinion after my last Iching reading. While I was watching the BBC world news after the recent French election, I felt pilled up of the political and social changes that have emerged in the global scene in the recent years.

I had the urge to ask IC about the immediate future of humanity regarding these changes.

My answer was hexagram 13.2 changing to 1.

This could be interpreted as the fellowship of man being challenged by nationalism, threating diversity that leads to creation (?). But could this emerge of raw power indicated by hex 1 ( the raw power of kundalini or the dragon) could be also the indication of a war ? A nuclear war maybe?

I feel that the answer is really into the spirit of the question but it slips off my perception and interpreting abilities.

Looking forward for your remarks. :)

Hex 14.1.3 to 64. The flat hunting goes on.

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Hello everyone,

Lately I've started a couple of posts about my "looking for a flat" situation. In a nutshell, I am forced to move from where I live now and seems I can't afford with my own means something that ticks, at least, the most important boxes. I looked for places further from my city and my workplace but couldn't find anywhere where I wouldn't feel lonely and stressed because of my dependency on public transport. Anyway. Even though I was hesitant at first I decided to take this opportunity to take the relationship with my partner to the next level. I was excited about it; somehow, my bad luck made sense to me. After visiting some flats and doing a lot of search, today he told me that he's not sure he wants to take this step. the reason is sad. He says he doesn't want to loose his "purchasing power", investing on furniture, jobs paintings and so on. He doesn't want to pay half of a rent either. He lives rent free with his mother. He is 55, for God's sake. I feel devastated now. I feel fooled. I know he loves me but... he's scared of commitment and scared of us not being able to make ends meet and therefore end up hating each other. That's what he says. But I still have to move, and have to do it quick, and won't be any easier without his support and with a new source of distress. I asked the iching what would be my best course of action regarding to my flat hunting situation. I got hexagram 14.1.3 to 64.
I understand the first line of hex 14 is advising not to allow him to hurt me and make things more difficult to me (so, is it not counting on him anymore, or demanding more commitment (if such thing is demandable)?
The third line talks about possessions that one doesn't offer because wants to keep them for himself... well, I think it's pretty clear what the Yi is talking about...maybe indicating that he won't change.
And hex 64... could mean that I should be able to realise that in order to fix my situation?
I could do with some insight with this one, because I am quite lost in this situation. I'm having the saddest birthday ever :( Many thanks in advance :)

Visit home and romance.

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Hello everyone,

So last time I was back home in England I had this AMAZING whirlwind romance with a gorgeous (modern day viking lol) man I went to high school with. The level of intensity was completely unexpected and a shock to both of us. Anyway once I was back in the States we did hit a rough patch, but now we are chatting again and I am heading home for a visit in June. I am hoping to rekindle our romance whilst back home.

Question: Please show the romantic relationship btw me and X during my trip in June?

Answer: 3.4.5 to 51

I think this reading is saying that our relationship will improve and that small measures will lead to the most improvement. I take this as not coming on too full on and perhaps just not having any expectations. I am confused by hexagram 51 because it seems to be the complete opposite from hexagram 3? Perhaps hexagram 51 is simply showing that it will in fact be romantic and not just platonic??? lol

Thanks in advance for any input :-)

Unicode Glyph for Old Yang as One Line

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Everybody:

Is there a Unicode Glyph that can be used for Old Yang drawn as one line.
By way of example, Old Yin is ⚎ as two lines, and ⟷ as one line.

The tables got somewhat demolished in the cut and past job.

Hex Code Unicode M# Glyph Name
1D300 119552 0 𝌀 Earth
268A 9866 1 ⚊ Yang
268B 9867 2 ⚋ Yin
27F7 10231 7 ⟷ Old Yin
???? ????? 8 ? Old Yang



Looks like the Unicode symbols also got demolished. :(
To see them correctly, install Noto Sans Symbols -- a gratis font from Google --- and then use your favorite Unicode compliant text editor/word processor to insert the glyphs with those Hex Codes.

What other people think

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One of the benefits of the I Ching is the way it allows you to let go of your old perspective that wasn't working ("A problem can never be solved at the level where it appears") and to see your situation from a different perspective that allows you to then see how to get yourself around whatever seemed to be blocking you. So to be able to see our situation from a different point of view is one of the great needs in the human psyche. It may be it is the very reason why we were created - God wanted to see himself from a different perspective! Yet, we recognize that asking questions about other people's perspectives - How does he see me? Does she love me? - is not on just invasive of another's privacy but also it often doesn't work, we are still unable to see things from their perspective. So today, thinking about this wondering if there were away to phrase a question so one could somehow get a reading about how another person views the world, what another person is thinking, feeling. I occurred to me that what we are trying to do is to enter another person's body/mind and look at the world through their eyes, to walk in their shoes. So we are not asking, "What does he think of me?" we are asking, "What would I think of me if I were viewing myself from his perspective?" I have gotten some meaningful results with this approach.

37.1,4,5 to56 :love life death

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This is my 1st post,I am not at all familiar on forums,etc. The consultation of I Ching,on the other hand has been a compagnionship of long,I am always amazed and grateful to the Oracle;I am only a student in this life. My question was in regard of a love message to my brother (who was as well soul brother)who died yesterday morning. This response:37.1,4,5.:56 Is so intense,deep,mysterious. I am impressed and wanted to share. Also:Thank you Hillary for this site.

Help wanted in confusing answer

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Hallo group,
I posed a question to the oracle this way:
Give me an opinion regarding my decision to start this "new project"...
the answer was
12 (stagnation)
with a 9 in the 6th line
changing to 45 (gathering together)

as usual I am puzzled by the seemingly contradiction between the first hexagram and the second...
I have learned from this group, not to consider the second hexagram a future outcome anymore
but this time is exactly what it looks like: to go from a stagnant situation to a situation of harvesting

thank you for any insight!

Carlo

Health question and 58.5 - sharing an experience

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I was laid up with an Ear Nose Throat virus from hell, spluttering in misery. We all know what to do- if there is no fever, best treatment is to wait it out with inhalations, plenty of fluids and rest. There is no point in seeing a doctor, not much more can be done.

So I waited for it to get better, but it only kept getting worse- my ears became so blocked I lost hearing. After a week, I started wondering when I would start seeing an improvement. I asked Yi: "how am I doing with this bug?" I was expecting a soothing 53, slow progress or something like that. But I got a rather alarming 58.5> 54. Trusting in disintegrating influence > powerless. What disintegrating influence? My own impatience? Or was something very wrong with my underlying health? panic 😱
I waited another 48h, still no improvement, and asked again. Got "58.2.5>51". Ok, the yi was trying to tell me something. But what? 58.2 says to trust your intuition, and your values, no error. My belief is that a cold goes away on its own. And that is not error. But 58.5 seemed to say that I had to stop trusting that belief system. After 10 days, it was time to see the doctor. Well, the appearance of 58.5 indicated that the viral infection (for which there is no treatment) had given way to a bacterial infection, and I needed antibiotics.

So, my take away: if during the course of an otherwise mild illness, I suddenly get 58.5, it means what I'm doing is no longer working, and I need to see a doctor or change treatments. I also looked up all the times I had drawn 58.5 on different matters, and every time, I had been trusting in the continuance of something which had already started crumbling away in the background- a partners fidelity, a contractors reliability etc...

In my experience, there was really no way of knowing the disintegration was happening, very much under the radar. The only indication was the 58.5.

Hexagram 8.3.6 > 53 and 53.3.6 > 8

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Hi everyone,

I recently did a reading regarding a very intense sexual relationship that ended due to immense complications with a child involved and other 3rd parties... the story is really long and the affair rather drawn out. I feel as though things ended abruptly, and much was left unsaid, which has resulted in unfinished business...

We have not spoken in about a month or so, and to get clarity on the situation and his feelings, I asked the oracle "what do I need to know about my relationship with X? I got hex 8.3.6 > 53. Then I asked "what will be the future of my relationship with x?" and got hex 53.3.6 > 8. Obviously there's a clear message as I got the same changing lines and the same hexagrams twice, just in reverse.

Any help would be much appreciated! XX

Relationship rollercoaster - 51UC & 13.3.4 > 42

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So I've been in quite an up & down relationship with my ex boyfriend the past while, who suffers from severe bouts of depression. He lives abroad.
I've posted about it before here: https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/frie...-6-gt-21-Shock

To cut a long story short I flew over to see him just over 3wks ago. It was was going well & one of mornings he turned to me & told me he was in love with me & wanted me to officially be his girlfriend :) Finally no more hiding feelings or what we wanted! (It was driving us both nuts!). We had a good night out & met up with a guy he knows over there as he wanted to discuss one of his business partners he has been butting heads with since he first got there, which has been causing him alot of stress & adding to his depressive episodes.
So later on when we got home I decided to bring up something that he had said a week or two previously that had really bothered me & had significance to the way we'd be moving forward....the second the words came out of my mouth I realised that it was completely the wrong place & time to bring it up! I apologised straight away & could see an agreement brewing so just kept repeating to him that I shouldn't have brought it up at that time, we went to sleep unhappy.
So when we woke up that morning that was the first topic of conversation & he started spiralling, then went into a full on breakdown! It was absolutely heartbreaking to watch! He kept erratically jumping from one topic to another, feelings of total worthlessness & hatred for himself...I genuinely thought if I hadn't been there there was a possibility he might take his own life. All I could do was hold him (he wouldn't let me at first) & tell him I love him & that I was here for him whenever he was ready. He eventually calmed & said how much he loved & appreciated me, he even said he wanted to have babies there & then! Obviously I took this with a pinch of salt knowing he was in a heightened emotional state. So I left to return home, leaving in a good place relationship wise.

So since I've been back it's been ok but we've sometimes squabbled a bit on the phone. I've been really stressed over my current situation of facing homelessness (https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/frie...ss-6-2-4-gt-20) & also was suppose to start a course in a niche area of physical fitness but & had just found out my foot is broken after walking round on it in pain for over 2mths so have had to cancel the whole thing. I am on complete immobility treatment for a while which for me as an extremely active person & a single parent was a real blow, & the final straw so to speak. So I have been extremely down, over reacting to things constantly & I would imagine very hard to listen to, especially for someone in such a highly depressive state.

It all came to a head over the space of a few days while I was in this down mindset; I felt completely unsupported so called him out on it, asking why he hadn't offered to come help me (I was barely able to shuffle around my house & was miserable) when I have always been there for him. Somehow we got talking about future plans, which escalated with him saying he didn't know if he saw a long term future together with me, I lost it with him asking why the hell would he ask me to be in a relationship with him if he knew all he wanted was casual, it was insulting & wasting my time, & then he said he retracted asking me out! I was shocked & appalled! How could you tell someone you were in love with them, expect them to be in an exclusive relationship & fly to another country with your child to see him for something casual, no intent of anything long term? I felt very hurt & betrayed; I called him a liar (admittedly a little over dramatic!). So we haven't contacted each other since. It's been over 10 days.

It still upsets me. And after all we've been through together & all the times he said I was the only thing he thought about while we were apart, for him to just want something casual but act & state otherwise is misleading & frankly insulting. That is voluntarily wasting my time by stringing me along & I am actually shocked that he of all people would act that way.
But talking a step back I know his go to is to throw things away, with people, places, jobs etc. He has a habit of burning bridges instead of dealing with things in a functional manner. Still hurts though.

So not wanting to waste any more of my time if it is going nowhere, & sick of all the drama, I asked "Is there a future with him" - Hex 51 Unchanging

Shock! Well that's a pretty obvious one as I am myself in a bit of shock over his reaction. I'm never totally sure about how to read unchanging Hex's. Is this saying emotional shocks now but we will get over it, not to let it break me/us, no real harm done? Not all doom & gloom, possibly even auspicious?

I was also considering reaching out to him, admitting that I over reacted because I'm not in a great place with my current circumstances, that i just felt hurt & betrayed by his reaction, possibly letting him know that I know he can't handle what's going on in my life right now & that's ok.
I don't want to fight & I don't want any anger between us, I feel we're both probably in need of each other right now & don't need this feud going on in the background.

So I asked: Is it beneficial to reach out to him at this time? - 13.3.4. > 42

Both 13 & 42 seem to talk of togetherness, benefiting from respecting each other. 42 even mentions "it is beneficial to cross the big river" (he lives abroad)
But I'm really unsure of the lines here:
13.3 - the troops lie hidden, for 3yrs he does not rise up - could be putting our weapons away, stop bickering!
13.4 - he climbs up the wall, he cannot attack. Good fortune. - maybe overcoming our differences without quarrel?

Anyone have any input or experiences with these Hex's & lines?

36.6>22 Plunging to Earth

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Greetings,

My friend R has Parkinson's Disease and has also been suffering debilitating pain in his back. He now needs round-the-clock assistance in his home so friends and family stay with him on a rotating basis. Last Saturday I stayed overnight at R's house, bolting from bed around 5am on Sunday morning when I heard him crying out in distress. I ran into his room to find him talking and expressing rather wild emotion in his sleep. Due to his back pain I did not want to grab his body so I began talking very loudly to try and wake him with my voice. Suddenly I became very sick and dizzy, staggered from the room, and fainted in the next bedroom. When I awoke on the floor some time later I heard R calling to me. He later said that the whole house shook when I hit the floor and the impact had woken him up. Additionally, he had no recollection of his nightmare and said that he knew of only one other occasion in his lifetime when he had talked in his sleep. For the rest of the morning I had trouble entering his room because I felt a malignant force field (not exaggerating) within those walls but nowhere else in the house. I opened windows to let air inside and told his next caregiver what happened when she arrived. As I prepared to leave she and R sat chatting in his room, neither of them noticing anything awry in the environment. I still felt dizzy each time I walked in there.

Sorry for the long preamble but I wanted to get the details in there. Each morning I meditate and ask the I Ching for daily guidance. Before departing for R's house on Saturday I had received 36.6>22.

Do you think 36.6 (Wilhelm/Baynes: Not light but darkness. First he climbed up to heaven, then he plunged into the depths of the earth.) may have predicted a fainting spell? I feel sort of silly asking this but would love insight from anyone who may have the inclination to offer it.

Btw.. there's another relatively new thread about 36.6 on this forum where several people discuss the ominous (or not) nature of 36.6. After receiving 36.6 on Saturday morning I had felt half alarmed/half relieved. In recent years it seems that I have been working my way through some very negative residual karma. After many years spent with rather violent people I have changed my lifestyle dramatically. Leaving home on Sat morning I had thought to myself: "Well, good. Maybe this signals the end of the darkness."

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on 36.6 in regard to fainting spells or just its general meaning.

Can't understand my feelings -> 56.2.5.6 > 28

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So a while back I made a thread about a day I was out with some friends and what I thought was normal ribbing turned out to hurt the feelings of two of them, and how bad I felt about it. At the time, I wasn't sure I had offended one of them; he sent me a message afterwards, but it wasn't at all clear if he was apologizing for some of the things he'd said to me before, or if he was telling me I'd made him feel bad. I admit, at the time, I spoke my mind under the guise of ribbing, and said some things which I hold to be true, but are not flattering or nice to hear.

The thing is, we went out for a bit, in a very messy and complicated relationship, during the end of which he said a great deal of things that hurt me very, very much. He never apologized for saying them, despite the fact that I was clear with him that he'd hurt me a lot, and how difficult it'd be to even be his friend when I felt he still thought those things about me.

After a lot of months, we've grown close together again, (I wrote about it in another thread) and today we were having a great conversation when he tells me he can't participate in an activity I was organizing because he still felt uncomfortable over the ribbing I'd done.

This time I apologized profusely for doing that, and he said he felt alright now, and that it was fine. However, I can't understand if I have a right to still be mad at the fact that he also said some hurtful stuff which he never apologized for, and yet I am the one that has to feel bad and apologize.

I can't understand how I feel, so I asked the Yi: "What do you think of what he said and how it made me feel?" Should I feel bad, angry? Is feeling angry unwarranted, feeling bad how I should feel? Is what he said prepostrous?

The Yi answered 56.2.5.6 > 28.

I'm stumped by the traveler in this context, but the idea of the ridgepole sagging in 28 makes me think of my own self control in trying to not stirr up trouble by bringing up those old issues again. Most of the lines in 56 seem to be positive. Maybe it's reflecting how, when he told me that, I went from feeling happy that we were rekindling our close friendship (which I still think we are) to feeling completely out of context, alienated.

Would anyone here care to give me an alternative interpretation? :confused: :confused:

7 unchanging in LOVE

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Hi, everyone! I'm new to this forum and I'm a beginner at this but in so many ways I Ching has already helped me SO much and I'm so thankful I found it at the time I did!

This is very personal so please excuse the long back story, but it would be much appreciated if I could have some help on 7 unchanging in regards to asking whether or not a person loves another person.

There is someone who I was with in the past and we liked each other very VERY much but life got in the way and we had to separate. There was some promise of reuniting in the beginning but after the separation, and somewhat during the relationship, I fell into a very dark hole emotionally. It wasn't related to him but a negative situation I had just come out of, and he just had happened to come around at that time. I should be honest because I would love to hear ideas on how this is relevant to my situation specifically, so I will just come out and say that I developed an eating disorder which really strongly controlled my life for three years. So, this year I finally went to treatment for that which I am very happy about. I realized a lot in treatment including how selfish and destructive my approach towards other people has been over these few years.

I considered him pretty much lost forever at that point probably because I was not very nice to him or myself after we parted ways, and I've heard he has some anger towards me although he has never shown it. Everything had been okay to that point until a couple of weeks ago. I deleted my SNS accounts because it was keeping me tied to old habits, and he reached out to someone to see if I was okay. That person, apparently not to be trusted lol, told me about it and it really shocked me that he was still watching out for me somehow even though we have not spoken in three years. Also, there is no real way he would have known about those accounts since I never told him and don't use my real name there. So, I guess somewhere along the line he had gathered information about me secretly and been watching me without contacting me for a certain period of time.

After much confusion and sorting through the negativity, I started consulting the I Ching about this situation and without a lot of surprise the answers about him and his motivations and feelings were not very positive. In general, the answers seem to be pointing towards a few vague concepts: 'he needs/wants you to make drastic changes,' '

I can remember some startling answers off the top of my head to give more context: I asked what changes I need to make and received 44 and 63 unchanging. I asked about his feelings about me and got 11 unchanging and 2 unchanging before. 45 comes up very often with different changing lines. When I ask about what he wants/needs from me I get some pretty downer hexes like 12 and 23 with changing lines.

I do get some nice and fuzzy answers sometimes, particularly when I ask about feelings. So, I decided to just bite the bullet and I asked "Does he love me?" I got 7 unchanging. I asked right after, perhaps to fact check, "Do I love him?" And I got 50 unchanging. Both of them being unchanging really struck me so I decided to think about those answers for a while and stop consulting. Oh my gosh, 50 unchanging is so accurate for me. Yes, I do think this person is a strong part of my destiny/life path no matter how the relationship manifests on Earth. The interpretations read like pages from my mind. But 7 unchanging is very unclear for me because I really don't see many examples of how this comes up in regards to love. It feels extremely unromantic, and like a 'heck no' for me, if I'm being perfectly honest!

I just want to know if I'm being too dismissive of this hexagram or if I am seeing very clearly a one-sided nature. I have come to terms with the fact that I may have destroyed this beyond repair by this point so I'd really appreciate honest feedback. Thanks!
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